1. My she-camel left me in the middle of spinning wells
The shirt clung to her after we drew near

2. She remained in a kind, compassionate air as embers glowed on her hide
She is accustomed to sly, slick grass whose growth is moist

3. With clear colors like gold coins dangling
She feared no human nor neglected to roam

4. She shook her white neck and avoided
The painful, tiresome sands of Sabbá

5. Then an impatient, zealous one set upon her
On a night when Sha’bân or Rajab was sacrificed

6. Until the horn of sunrise flashed upon him
He left the son of Qurrân in the night as game and stranger

7. She takes us on the way to a tribe, sent ahead
Her sending ahead almost reached long eras

8. Until I came to my boy who held her back
Calling to the left, and I had poured anger onto him

9. I began to ask what was with his company
Motivate the carriers as the riding company had gone

10. Were they from the clan of Hamdân or Sa’d or
Khaulân or Mudhij excitedly aroused for him

11. I met them with the question, “Do you have news
Of those who made the Hajj from the people of ‘Âd? I have cared for them”

12. They said, “Hurry to us,” and they claimed
That a riding company had set out from them and embarked

13. Whether Hibâl, or Dhu Al-Majâz, or indeed
In Minâ you will find a cause from them

14. I found out when she descended that
Encampments are of those things that bring wonder

15. As if she and the Banû Al-Najjâr were her company
And they had climbed her hilltops the preceding evening

16. In the blindness of people, no one was aware of us
When we took advantage of the mountains of night and gloom

17. Do not overpower yourself for a moonlit night
Not for your satisfaction nor wrongfully taken

18. I came across the family of Abû Hafs and his women
Before that and ages after it dogs

19. Who would pounce upon us through revolving time
Between the two encampments, neither serious nor playing

20. God knows what I say and what they say
When they ride continuous, flowing mounts